1969 in heavy metal music

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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1969.

Bands formed

Day	Artist	Album
13	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin
17	Iron Butterfly	Ball

Day	Artist	Album
9	Slade	Beginnings
19	The Who	Tommy

Day	Artist	Album
25	Alice Cooper	Pretties for You
	Deep Purple	Deep Purple
	The Jeff Beck Group	Beck-Ola
	Coven	Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls

Day	Artist	Album
	Vanilla Fudge	Rock & Roll

Day	Artist	Album
10	King Crimson	In the Court of the Crimson King
10	The Kinks	Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
22	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin II
	High Tide	Sea Shanties

Day	Artist	Album
29	Grand Funk Railroad	Grand Funk (The Red Album)
	Blue Cheer	Blue Cheer

^ Borthwick & Moy 2001, p. 57 "Certain elements of psychedelic coding found their way into genres as diverse as soul, funk, proto-metal (the "space rock" of Hawkwind, for instance), folk (Roy Harper, The Flying Burrito Brothers), jazzy rock (Steely Dan's early work), indie, dance genres such as acid house and trance, ambient and commercial chart pop."
^ Buckley 2003, p. 702 "Although Mountain will probably be remembered only for the anthemic "Mississippi Queen" and the seemingly endless "Nantucket Sleighride", Felix Papparlardi (bass/keyboards) and Leslie West (guitar/vocals) were the musical fuel of a band that, along with Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath, pioneered the bottom heavy sludge that would become heavy metal."
^ Weinstein 1994, p. 66 "But until the late 1980s there were almost no black heavy metal musicians (Exceptions such as the late Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy can be counted on the fingers of one hand.)"
^ Buckley 2003, p. 1116 "In the end, UFO are probably best regarded as having brought a touch of class to heavy metal, for having great tunes and a cool logo, and for being so out of it that even "Mad Mickey" Schenker couldn't stand the heat."